Extradition

News about Extradition, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 17, 2015

United States prosecutors extradite FIFA official Jeffrey Webb from Switzerland, making him first of 14 indicted in May to be sent to the US for trial; faces charges that he sought bribes in return for lucrative television deals regarding soccer games; prosecutors also reveal that they are in plea deal negotiations with sports marketing executive Aaron Davidson. MORE

Jun. 22, 2015

Ahmed Mansour, Egyptian-British journalist working for Al Jazeera network, is being held in Germany pending court ruling on validity of Egyptian warrant for his arrest; Egyptian government has demanded arrest and extradition of several people since 2013 ouster of Pres Mohamed Morsi, but Mansour's arrest in Germany represents first time western government has complied. MORE

Mar. 10, 2015

Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor for International Criminal Court, asks United Nations Security Council to enforce extradition of Sudanese Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir; had previously said she was suspending criminal investigations of Darfur atrocities due to lack of cooperation from Sudan. MORE

Mar. 4, 2015

United States prosecutors extradite Vietnamese man, Minh Quang Pham, from Britain to face trial in Manhattan on charges he created online propaganda for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; indictment says in 2010, Pham was in Yemen, swore allegiance to Al Qaeda and helped the group produce English-language online magazine called Inspire. MORE

Jan. 19, 2015

Belgian prosecutors are asking Greek authorities for help in extraditing person arrested in Greece who may be connected to foiled terrorism plot in Belgium. MORE

Jan. 3, 2015

Argentina's Supreme Court rules that American Kurt Sonnenfeld, who sought refuge there after being charged with killing his wife in 2002, will be extradited to United States and tried in Denver; Sonnenfeld claims he is being framed for his wife’s death to discredit his theories about Sept 11 attacks. MORE

Dec. 20, 2014

Anadolu News Agency, semiofficial Turkish government news media, reports that court officials have issued arrest warrant for self-exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen claiming that he participated in planning overthrow of government; Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, is unlikely to be extradited to Turkey despite Pres Recep Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to condemn him. MORE

Nov. 21, 2014

Swedish court upholds four-year-old order for the detention of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over accusations of sexual assault; ruling is bitter defeat for Assange, Australian who fled to Ecuadoran Embassy in London, as his lawyers seek to have order withdrawn. MORE

Oct. 22, 2014

Britain extradites terrorism suspect Haroon Aswat to the United States following nearly a decade of negotiation; Aswat, paranoid schizophrenic, is alleged to be a colleague of convicted terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri. MORE

Sep. 4, 2014

British couple Brett and Naghmeh King, parents of 5-year-old boy with a brain tumor, are released from a prison in Spain and reunited with their child after British prosecutors drop charges; couple had been arrested for taking son out of Britain to seek alternative treatment. MORE

Sep. 2, 2014

Spanish judge orders Brett and Naghemeh King back into police custody pending further examination of their case, as well as a report from a hospital in Malaga where their 5-year-old son Ashya is being treated; British police issued a European arrest warrant for the Kings, who are seeking treatment for their son's brain tumor, for taking him out of the hospital there, on charges of parental neglect. MORE

Jun. 19, 2014

German authorities are seeking to extradite 89-year-old Johann Breyer, Philadephia resident who is accused of complicity in the gassing of 216,00 Jews during his time as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp; Breyer is arrested and held as proceedings continue; case signals new cooperation between Germany and the United States in prosecuting people suspected of having been Nazis. MORE

May. 3, 2014

Editorial charges groundless efforts by Turkish Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan to convince United States to extradite Fethullah Gulen, Turkish preacher in Pennsylvania, represents crass and cynical attempt to exploit both law and Turkey's alliance with US for political payback; notes Erdogan and Gulen were once close but have fallen out over corruption scandal surrounding Erdogan. MORE

Apr. 30, 2014

Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces that Turkey will officially request that United States extradite Fethullah Gulen, Turkish preacher in Pennsylvania whose network of followers has been accused of trying to undercut Erdogan's government through a corruption scandal. MORE

Mar. 12, 2014

Campaign finance experts say political donations made to Pres Obama and more than a dozen members of Congress by relatives of Roberto and William Isaias, wealthy fugitives from Ecuador, create appearance of conflict of interest over decision not to extradite brothers; conflict over extradition is part of a broader battle between Ecuador and the Obama administration over international fugitives. MORE

Mar. 7, 2014

Niger extradites Saadi el-Qaddafi, third son of Col Muammar el-Qaddafi, back to Libya, where he is accused of participating in corruption and abuses of his father’s more than 40-year rule. MORE

Mar. 6, 2014

Mexican judge denies the drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, an injunction against any extradition to the United States. MORE

Feb. 25, 2014

Lawyers for Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera are seeking an injunction against extradition, as questions have arisen about whether Guzman will be tried in Mexico or the United States. MORE

Feb. 24, 2014

Samuel Sheinbein, American-Israeli man who was serving time in an Israeli prison for a 1997 murder, is killed in a shootout with Israeli security forces after he shoots and wounds several prison guards; death of Sheinbein, who escaped to Israel after the murder and fought off extradition to United States, brings dramatic conclusion to painful episode that had strained American-Israeli relations. MORE

Feb. 24, 2014

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn want Joaquin Guzman Loera, Mexican drug lord captured in resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico, to return to United States to face long list of charges, competing with several other jurisdictions seeking his extradition; Guzman's capture was billed as result of cooperation between Mexican and American governments, and it is uncertain how Mexico will respond to extradition request. MORE

Jan. 12, 2014

German financier Florian Homm, who was arrested in Italy on United States charges of securities fraud after five years in hiding, will appeal to Italian Ministry of Justice in last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition. MORE

Oct. 15, 2013

Russia opens criminal investigation into the chief executive of the potash producer Uralkali, Vladislav Baumgertner, and will request his extradition from Belarus. MORE

Oct. 4, 2013

Former Tunisian soccer player Nizar Trabelsi, who was sentenced to a decade in prison in Belgium in 2003 for planning a suicide bombing for Al Qaeda against military base there, has been extradited to United States to face similar charges in an American court. MORE

Oct. 1, 2013

The former trader, Javier Martin-Artajo, appears to be fighting extradition but Spanish authorities are expected to cooperate, a senior prosecutor said. MORE

Sep. 3, 2013

Russian Foreign Ministry cautions citizens wanted by the United States not to visit nations that have an extradition treaty with the US. MORE

Aug. 16, 2013

United States asks Ireland to hand over Eric Marques, man who Federal Bureau of Investigation says is world’s most prolific facilitator of child pornography; Marques is accused of using encryption technology to offer an anonymous hosting service for Web sites with total of more than one million pornographic pictures. MORE

Aug. 15, 2013

Lithuanian court orders extradition to the United States of Dmitry Ustinov, Russian man suspected of illegal arms dealing. MORE

Jul. 23, 2013

Russian officials complain that United States routinely disregards extradition requests by the Russian government, latest in a series of public statements that seem aimed at laying groundwork for granting asylum to Edward Snowden. MORE

Jul. 10, 2013

Daniel Barrera, Colombian kingpin also known as El Loco, is extradited on charges that he manufactured large quantities of cocaine and trafficked it to the United States; he is to be arraigned in federal district courts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where he faces separate indictments. MORE

Jun. 23, 2013

State Department is asking Hong Kong to extradite Edward J Snowden to face espionage and theft charges in the United States, setting off what is likely to be a tangled and protracted fight over his fate. MORE

Jun. 13, 2013

Edward J Snowden, former National Security Agency computer technician who has acknowledged leaking highly classified documents about United States government's monitoring of Internet and telephone communications, tells Hong Kong newspaper that he plans to stay in the city and fight extradition. MORE

May. 29, 2013

Former Guatemalan Pres Alfonso Portillo is extradited to the United States in money laundering case and pleads not guilty in New York courtroom; he was acquitted of embezzlement charges in Guatemala but Manhattan federal prosecutors accuse him of conspiring to launder millions of dollars in his country’s money through bank accounts in the United States and elsewhere. MORE

May. 25, 2013

Former Guatemalan Pres Alfonso Portillo is extradited from Mexico City to New York to face long-pending corruption charges. MORE

Apr. 17, 2013

European Court of Human Rights blocks Britain from extraditing Haroon Aswat to United States, citing his mental state; Aswat, who is being held in secure psychiatric hospital, stands accused of trying to set up terrorist training camp in Oregon with radical cleric Mostafa Kamel Mostafa. MORE

Apr. 11, 2013

Joshua and Sharyn Hakken, Florida couple accused of kidnapping their two young boys after losing custody and then fleeing to Cuba, are brought back to United States and arrested in Tampa; children are returned to grandparents after rare cooperation between two hostile countries. MORE

Apr. 4, 2013

Egyptian court rules against extradition to Libya of Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, former close aide of ousted dictator Col Muammar el-Qaddafi. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, Saudi Arabian man accused of conspiring to attack American facilities in Nigeria, is latest example of terrorist defendants apprehended overseas and being extradited to federal courts in New York; faces up to life in prison if convicted. MORE

Jan. 4, 2013

South Korean court sides with China in fight between Beijing and Tokyo for custody of Liu Qiang, Chinese man accused of arson attack at Yasukuni Shrine for Japan's war dead in Tokyo; both cities filed competing requests for Liu's extradition while he was serving 10-month prison sentence in South Korea for separate attack on Japanese embassy there. MORE

Jan. 4, 2013

Abid Naseer, Pakistani man who was arrested in Britain in 2009 for plotting terrorist attacks there and in the United States, is extradited to face charges in New York; Naseer is accused of being part of a cell of Al Qaeda. MORE

Dec. 28, 2012

Piratheepan Nadarajah and Suresh Sriskandarajah, extradited from Canada to the United States on charges of supporting Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, are ordered held without bond during appearance in Federal District Court in Brooklyn; men had been sought by US since 2006 when they engaged in negotiations to buy weapons from an undercover FBI agent. MORE

Oct. 17, 2012

British authorities block longstanding demand for the extradition of Gary McKinnon, computer hacker wanted in the United States to face charges of intruding into Pentagon computer networks. MORE

Oct. 11, 2012

British authorities resume protracted effort to send Muslim cleric Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman to Jordan to face charges; Othman, also known as Abu Qatada, was convicted in absentia for his involvement in terrorist bombing plots and has been under restriction in Britain for more than a decade. MORE

Oct. 7, 2012

Abu Hamza al-Masri, Muslim preacher with links to Al Qaeda, and four other terrorism suspects implicated in an array of terrorist plots are extradited to the United States to face federal charges in Manhattan and New Haven. MORE

Oct. 6, 2012

British court approves extradition of five detainees, including firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, to United States on terrorism charges. MORE

Oct. 3, 2012

Lawyers for Abu Hamza al-Masri, Muslim cleric wanted in the United States on terrorism charges, say that he is physically unfit to face accusations against him and that it would be 'oppressive' to extradite him from Great Britain, where he has been held since 2006. MORE

Sep. 27, 2012

British court issues an interim injunction to block the extradition of the radical cleric known as Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States on terrorism charges. MORE

Sep. 25, 2012

European court of Human Rights rules that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges; decision means Masri could be deported from Great Britain within weeks. MORE

Sep. 6, 2012

Abdullah al-Senussi, Col Muammar el-Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, is extradited to Libya by Mauritania, handing a victory to the new Tripoli government in an international tug of war over the chance to put him on trial for murder and war crimes; Mauritania arrested him in March as he sought to evade attempts by the Libyans, the French and the International Criminal Court to bring him to trial for suspected human rights abuses and acts of international terrorism. MORE